Samuel Johnson

He who praises every body, praises nobody.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.

We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves…

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

I don’t do quagmires.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.